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McCormick & Co. Inc.'s sales grew 2 percent but profit slipped 15 percent in the first three months of its fiscal year — better-than-expected results that sent shares up Tuesday for the Sparks-based flavoring and spice company. The company, which is contining to expand in China and preparing to launch a line of gourmet spices in the United States, reported net income Tuesday of $70.5 million for the quarter that ended Feb. 28, down from $82.5 million a year earlier. Earnings per share slipped to 55 cents from 62 cents. But earnings would have climbed 13 percent to 70 cents per share, helped by a lower tax rate, without the impact of 15 cents per share in special charges,...

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McCormick & Co. Inc.'s sales grew 2 percent but profit slipped 15 percent in the first three months of its fiscal year — better-than-expected results that sent shares up Tuesday for the Sparks-based flavoring and spice company.The company, which is...

As dawn broke over the still waters of Kent Narrows on Monday, a couple of workboats carrying watermen ventured out in search of oysters.
For the first time in six years, state regulators have opened the Narrows in Queen Anne's County to shellfish...

The Obama administration's new plan to fight seafood fraud and illegal fishing is being met with praise — and some criticism — by local and national groups involved in the issue.
The groups lauded the overall approach to address black market operators...

A group of Maryland lawmakers are again pushing to add as many as 2,500 slot machines to BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.
A House committee will hear a bill Tuesday that would ask voters to decide to further expand Maryland's gaming industry to seven...

Baltimore County is home to the oldest craft brewery in Maryland. But there has never been a nanobrewery, which produces beer in smaller batches.
That may soon change, if legislation defining zoning regulations for such tiny brewing operations is...

Robi Rawl's commentary, "Repeal water tax" (Feb. 23), was a pithy pitch for making water more prominent in our lives, especially given the harm caused by sugary drink consumption.
I was at the committee hearing for this bill in Annapolis. It...

As far back as the 1970s, the dangerous nature of plastics in our global waterways was well known. Images of turtles and birds entangled in soda six-pack liners heightened our awareness of the impact of plastic waste products on marine life.
Now, there's...

Katie Horn and Marie Stratton know that when you cook what you love, other people will follow. Especially when what you love to cook is a collection of delicious snacks made from scratch.
Horn and Stratton are the founders of Kinderhook Snacks, a...

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake wants to give a tax break to supermarkets that locate in unserved Baltimore areas and to add more protections for homeowners facing a city tax sale because of unpaid taxes or water bills.
The two proposals are key parts...

As Harford County officials await a much-hoped-for revenue stream from the new lodging tax, many in the local tourism industry are excited for what they say should be a bigger boost to tourism in general.
Harford County Executive Barry Glassman announced...

Just days ago, the Obama administration wisely chose to protect the most pristine and sensitive tundra in Alaska from oil exploration. It has similarly maintained a ban on drilling off the West Coast. And that pipeline from Canada to Texas? The Keystone...

B. Green & Co. helped pioneer warehouse-style supermarkets in the 1970s and at one time ran the largest grocery wholesaler on the East Coast. More recently, the family-owned retailer launched a campaign to expand healthy food choices in the city's...

The Savage Historical Society will hold its monthly meeting on Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. at the F&M Center. The topic will be Discussion of Cemeteries. It will be presented by Fred Dorsey, who is on the Cemetery Preservation Advisory Board.
The...

With the holiday shopping season over, store closing season has arrived, driven this year by a shift in how and where consumers make purchases and the continued decline of a once-dependable middle-class customer base.
Less than two weeks into 2015,...

FedEx brought in nearly all of its 185 employees at its Linthicum station early Monday to handle the crush of packages needing delivery around Baltimore on what was expected to be the parcel service's busiest day of the year."We started earlier...

It would be oversimplifying to say that Sarah O'Herron and Edward Boyce, co-owners of Black Ankle Vineyards in Mount Airy, left their business consulting careers because they liked to drink, but there's a seed of truth in that.
They loved wine,...

After nearly 70 years in Baltimore, the plastic container maker Hedwin Corp. will start moving operations to Delaware early next year, with plans to shut its local operations down by 2017, its top executive said Monday.When Fujimori Kogyo Co. Ltd....

As the winter break comes to an end for students, this is a reminder that January starts the renovation at Patuxent Valley Middle School. Fences have been constructed and school will be operating around this and there will be some changes made to the...

Stocks are still a good place to invest in the new year, and equities could easily jump another 25 percent before the bull market is done.
The S&P 500, which accounts for about 80 percent of publicly traded companies in the United States, is...